Addison-Wesley publishes Moving to Linux

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Thank you, Heather Fox

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From: Fox, Heather 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:01 PM
To: 'lwn@lwn.net'
Cc: Fox, Heather
Subject: New Book: Addison-Wesley Professional Announces Publication of:
"Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye" [Second
Edition]


Upper Saddle River, NJ (August, 2005): Addison-Wesley Professional, the
leading publisher of advanced technology books for professionals and
consumers, announces the publication of the Second Edition of: "Moving to
Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye", authored by Marcel Gagne.  

Celebrated among both newbie and seasoned (no pun intended) Linux users as
the award-winning author of the Linux Journal column "Cooking with Linux,"
Gagné brings his extensive knowledge, friendliness, humor, and savoir faire
to the newly updated and enhanced Second Edition of "Moving to Linux: Kiss
the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!"   
 
First published in the Summer of 2003, "Moving to Linux" was something new
on the scene, a book that promised the average user that moving to and
running a Linux desktop was something anyone could do.  Now, just two years
later, the Second Edition speaks to a vastly expanded audience, one that
embraces Linux not as an abstract concept better left to the expertise of IT
professionals, but rather as an essential household presence and everyday
term.  

"Moving to Linux", which includes a CD with the full-featured Linux
distribution Knoppix, makes Linux possible for the everyday user: the
adolescent searching for a more efficient way to play computer games, the
professional assembling a database or creating a crucial presentation, the
parent juggling children's busy sports schedules, or the college student
scrambling to compile research for a term paper due in three hours.  This is
Linux for real life.    

"The primary reason I find Moving to Linux 2nd Edition so suitable for new
GNU/Linux users is that Marcel Gagne doesn't shy away from the tough
subjects. Modems, digital cameras, and multimedia are traditionally tricky
GNU/Linux topics, but Marcel tackles them with glee. My GNU/Linux user
podcast would be much farther ahead if I had had access to this book 6
months ago. Thanks Marcel!" - Jon Watson, Host of The GNU/Linux User Show,
The Podcast Network, http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/linuxuser

Gagné writes with assurance and ease: "Once you are done working with this
book, I am confident that Linux will be your operating system of choice for
the foreseeable future."  As with any change, the switch from Windows to
Linux can be rather daunting, at times technologically debilitating,
preventing the otherwise competent computer user from taking the initiative
needed to convert.  

After reading "Moving to Linux," the hesitant Windows dreamer will be a
confident Linux user, one that Gagné invites to "...experiment with other
desktop environments.  Exercise your freedom to be yourself."  With "Moving
to Linux" the reader can attain the freedom to choose the operating system
that best corresponds with personal wants, goals, and needs.  Finally, Gagné
gives us a way to kiss "the blue screen of death" goodbye!    

The book has 19 chapters in total, consisting of nearly 400 pages, and 4
Appendices.
Chapter topics include: "Ready....Set....Linux!"; "Getting Your Hands
Dirty"; "Konquering Your World" [on the KDE desktop]; "Customizing Your
Desktop"; "Installing New Applications"; "Printers and Other Hardware";
"Connecting to the Internet"; "Surfing the Internet"; "Electronic Mail
Clients"; Getting Organized"; "Word Processors"; "Spreadsheets";
"Presentation Graphics"; "Digital Photography"; "Digital Art with the GIMP";
"Linux Multimedia (If Music Be the Food of Love....); "Fun and Games". 

The book will be available through major chain and independent booksellers
nationwide and through online vendors at a suggested retail price of US
$39.99. To learn more about the book, visit
www.awprofessional.com/title/0321356403, or contact Addison-Wesley
Professional Publicist Heather Fox at 201-236-7139 or email:
heather.fox@pearsoned.com.

 
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Heather L. Fox, Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR & IBM Press
(phone) 201.236.7139; (FAX); 201.236.7123 heather.fox@pearsoned.com 
www.awprofessional.com; www.phptr.com 
Street Address: 
c/o Pearson Education, 1 Lake St., #3K17, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 07458  USA



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